Development of Theme In The Graveyard Book by Aubryn Patton https://padlet.com/apatto19/wtj4m9ar6j13a585 Finding Community en-us 2020-10-30 16:17:08 UTC 2025-12-13 18:08:05 UTC hello@padlet.com Passage #1 apatto19 https://padlet.com/apatto19/wtj4m9ar6j13a585/wish/876999344 "'This is where you live and this is where those who love you can be found. Outside would not be safe for you. Not yet.'”
"'You were given the freedom of the Graveyard, after all,' Silas would tell him. 'So the Graveyard is taking care of you" 
pg. 37-38

This quote is from the beginning of The Graveyard Book. Bod has lived in the graveyard for a few years and has been accepted by those that live in the graveyard and given protection. However, he still feels like an outsider and is curious about what the world outside the graveyard, the world he is from, could offer him. 
]]> 2020-10-30 16:19:51 UTC https://padlet.com/apatto19/wtj4m9ar6j13a585/wish/876999344 Passage #2 apatto19 https://padlet.com/apatto19/wtj4m9ar6j13a585/wish/877056979 “The dead and the living do not mingle, boy. We are no longer part of their world; they are no part of ours." 

"Bod realized why he had danced as one of the living, and not as one of the crew that had walked down the hill"
Pg. 162-163

For the most part, Bod has done well to fit in with the graveyard community while he has lived there. However, the Danse Macabre is one of the first times he realizes he doesn't know where he belongs. He did not walk down the hill with the dead, yet at the end of the dance, he returned to his community of the dead. He realizes that he does not fully belong to either community. ]]> 2020-10-30 16:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/apatto19/wtj4m9ar6j13a585/wish/877056979 Passage #3 apatto19 https://padlet.com/apatto19/wtj4m9ar6j13a585/wish/877105839 "'You know you’re different. That you are alive. That we took you in'"
"But the dead and the living were different, he knew that, even
if his sympathies were with the dead."
Pg. 178-179
At this point Bod has accepted the duality of his life. He balances between the community of the living and the community of the dead. As he begins to learn more about his past, it encourages him to keep looking. Though he loves his community in the graveyard, he begins to realize the potential of the world outside of the graveyard. ]]> 2020-10-30 16:45:28 UTC https://padlet.com/apatto19/wtj4m9ar6j13a585/wish/877105839 Passage #4 apatto19 https://padlet.com/apatto19/wtj4m9ar6j13a585/wish/877155402 "'I mean, there’s a whole world out there. Can I see it? Can I go there?'”

"Bod said, 'If I change my mind can I come back here?' And then he answered his own
question. 'If I come back, it will be a place, but it won’t be home any longer.'"

"He found the small pedestrian gate was unlocked and wide
open, as if it was waiting for him, as if the graveyard itself was bidding him good-bye."

After Bod has been faced with the reality of death, he turns towards the community of the living. After years of trying to fit in with the community of the dead in the graveyard, he comes to the realization that the graveyard is not where he truly belongs. It is a peaceful parting because both Bod and the residents of the graveyard realize he has outgrown the place. His attempts to find community there were successful, but it would not be the only community he wanted to find.




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